"David" wrote in message
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On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:17:45 GMT, "David Eduardo"
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"David" wrote in message
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On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:23:07 GMT, "David Eduardo"
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Same thing. It was used frequently as both. My point is that your
information is somewhat limited.

I say your technical knowledge is limited. I was working in broadcast
engineering when the Levil Devil was still in the Gates catalog, early
in their tradition of building crappy audio processing.

I was _building_ transmitters, consoles and entire stations from scratch
when the Level Devil was still being sold. Larry Cervone himself actually
tried to sell me one.

Every manufacturer had audio processing gear, mostly intended to protect
from overmodulation, in that era. When CBS introduced the Volumax and
Audimax, it was realized that processing could be cleaner and more
effective.

http://www.omniaaudio.com/tech/retrospective.htm

Frank obviously is too young to have lived this transition. The first
Audimax and Volumax (pre-gating) were good, but not too much better than the
other units which, as he says, were intended to prevent notices of
violations. It was not until the neat pair of white CBS boxes with their
adjustable gate, caged circuit boards and totally transistorized circuitry
that it became very obvious that processing was a tool that could be used to
sound better and louder than the competition.

Overall, a pretty good overview of processing. For brevity, it does not
discuss the home built processors used widely in the late 70's and early
80's and Greg Ogonowski's contribution to multiband processing in th
epre-optimod era.